Research Guides

The Hartman Center holds an extensive collection of more than 3 million items, including:

Advertisements

Books

Correspondence

Films

Photographs

Publications

Serials

Slides

Our collections document the history of advertising, sales and marketing throughout the past 200 years. In addition to the J. Walter Thompson (JWT) Company Archives, the most comprehensive historical record of any advertising agency, the Hartman enter contains the collections of other key companies and individuals in the dynamic fields of advertising, marketing and sales. A sampling of the topics we cover include: